> do you think they're going to ship something that performs noticeably worse than its predecessor?
This happens all the time. Once the first gen devs are off, the releases tend to alternate. A decline from the existing version and then an improvement that mostly fixes what they made worse in the prior release. e.g. Windows XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8 -> 10
The nature of AI though may make it more difficult to distinguish the failings immediately which could result in an irreversible inflection point.
AI's are not OSes. Once the source of training comes mostly from the AI itself instead of human curated sources, what will you get over time it's the same thing the Megahal/Hailo chatbots parroted a few decades ago.
This happens all the time. Once the first gen devs are off, the releases tend to alternate. A decline from the existing version and then an improvement that mostly fixes what they made worse in the prior release. e.g. Windows XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8 -> 10
The nature of AI though may make it more difficult to distinguish the failings immediately which could result in an irreversible inflection point.